HP Z840 - Boot Time Lag

[Ram-Z840]

I have major lag in Boot Time for my brand new HP Z840. Video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zj0NhyZcQw

I started with a Windows 7 OS and upgraded to the 8.1. In both cases, my boot time was 2 minutes.

This despite having a Micron 256 GB SSD as the Boot Disc.

To cut a long story short, I have been in touch with the local HP Support and they have tried practically everything, installing and reinstalling the OS, checking each and every RAM Stick (8 x 4GB), the whole lot.

They changed the whole mother board of late. The problem is still the same. 2 Whole minutes just to boot up is atrocious. Especially for a flagship machine like the Z840 with a SSD to boot.

I can give detailed screen shots and videos of my set up BIOS and other settings if any one can assist.

All in all, I am very disappointed with this, if I may dare, ineptitude from HP's side.

Looking forward to a solution from the wider HP community.

Many thanks,

Ram.

[z820_trev]

I recently installed a pair of HP's offical HP zTurbo SSD PCIe 512GB cards, but on a z820, not the z840.

After upgrading the BIOS to the latest vesion I still had a very slow boot performance for an SSD - Until I discovered some BIOS options which need to be turned configured!

Fast Boot was one of them - Why would you want a slow boot. So I advise taking a good root around the bios settings, as well fast boot I also disabled the Power Management which dramatically improved boot time slow down.

I also configured the first boot drive to be the SSD. I also disabled starting of the SAS controller.

[Takee]

I have fast boot anabled and booting to Windows 10 desktop takes 1 minute and 49 seconds.

When BIOS is booting, only the HP logo is displayed. I don't know what the computer is doing. There is no option to disable the logo.

There is also a problem with HP z27q monitors. Sometimes monitors are not waking up. Slow boot with no picture is annoying.

[MtothaJ]

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@Takee wrote:

I have fast boot anabled and booting to Windows 10 desktop takes 1 minute and 49 seconds.

When BIOS is booting, only the HP logo is displayed. I don't know what the computer is doing. There is no option to disable the logo.

There is also a problem with HP z27q monitors. Sometimes monitors are not waking up. Slow boot with no picture is annoying.

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Try disabling fast boot. At least in the Z420 with fast boot enabled I has having a similar situation - first just a black screen, then just HP logo then Windows. With fast boot off you see more of what is going on at startup instead of just staring at a blank screen and the processes isn't really any slower.

[dodolup]

Hy! I have the same problem with a Z620 workstastion. I press the power button and the monitor stays off for 10-20 seconds then it recives signal and the hp logo appears. What is frustrating is that when i press the power button nothing is happening on the screen, it stays in stand-by.
Any sugestions?
I am thinking that updating the bios might help. Sorry for my english, not a native.
Many thanks!

[MtothaJ]

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@dodolup wrote:
Hy! I have the same problem with a Z620 workstastion. I press the power button and the monitor stays off for 10-20 seconds then it recives signal and the hp logo appears. What is frustrating is that when i press the power button nothing is happening on the screen, it stays in stand-by.
Any sugestions?
I am thinking that updating the bios might help. Sorry for my english, not a native.
Many thanks!

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My experiences are broadly similar. Z420, boot options set to EFI, fast boot off, Samsung 950 Pro powering on / cold starting the system :

0 sec - power button is pressed

20 sec - HP logo appears on screen

35 sec - desktop appears

When restarting

0 sec - screen goes black, fans are heard
25 sec - desktop appears

[AGS_user]

I had the same issue, and it was a result of the LSI SAS controller initialization.   The only way to speed up the boot time is to disable the SAS controller and msfrom BIOS by hitting F10 on power-on, and going into 'Advanced Settings' -> 'Device Configurations' -> 'SAS Controller' -> 'DISABLE'.

Caveat - your system drive may likely be on the SAS controller, which in which case, was connected to the four HDD bays.  Your options are:

1)  Connect the system drive bay to SATA or eSATA controller instead of SAS

2)  Scrap SATA drives and get NVMe Samsung M.2 SSD drive with a M.2 adapter througn a PCIe interface.  This will not use any of your SATA interfaces and will provide the absolute fastest SDD performance....while keeping your system boot time to <35 seconds.

[HALBIGH]

I own an HP 147-C with an unreasonable boot up  time. It takes about 10 - 15 minutes to open.  I have tried troubleshooting it using the troubleshooter in the Control Panel and I've looked everywhere for a solution.  No luck.  Please help!

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